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Dennis John Kucinich Formal Announcement Speech Cleveland, Ohio Monday, October 13, 2003 Thank you for joining me for this important moment, not only for myself but for the Cleveland community. My brothers and sisters will remember this story. There is a fiery torch which lights the night skies over our beloved Cleveland. It rises from the furnace of a steel mill. I remember a time when that light played against the interior of our car. As a young child I pressed my face against the car window and watched as the flame reached up. It filled me with wonder, it gave me a spark of hope. It made me forget that my mom and dad, my brothers and sisters, all seven of us, were living in that car.
Light has the power to enkindle dreams. And though we lived in 21 different places by the time I was 17, including a couple of cars, I breathed in the image of blazing light and I breathe it out at this very moment.
The scriptures bid us to send forth our light and our truth and when children carry within their hearts the torch of hope, they learn the darkness yields not only to man-made fire, but to starlight, the rising sun, and to the light of the soul.
So I dedicate this day to the light bearers of today and tomorrow. The children who seek hope, who seek homes, who seek our help to be lifted up, to learn how to look for the light, how to read, how to dance, how to sing, how to play, how to love, how to summon from seemingly nothing the new realities which some call miracles. Miracles occur when our faith meets inner vision, where believing is seeing.
This moment, this moment, which evolved as the dream of an inner city child who once lived in a car, to become President of the United States celebrates not my potential but the creative potential of each and every child to be somebody, to be loved, to serve, to lead, to be carried into the myth and magic of the express power of the American Dream and our responsibility to make each child's dreams come true.
Last month, I introduced a bill and as President will seek to enact a program to provide for universal pre-kindergarten for children ages 3-5; to give each child the earliest start in a 5 day a week program, in a school setting, to learn reading skills, educational, social skills and to have to have proper nutrition available. This day care program would be funded by a 15% reduction in the bloated Pentagon budget. You know and I know that there is massive waste in the Pentagon budget, and this would not jeopardize our national security. However, it would instead enhance the economic security of our nation, of our nation's families, it would help provide day care for our children, it would allocate families at least $5,000 per child to do this, I will match an effort to provide free tuition to public colleges and universities for all of America's youth.
We see the deeper meaning of a sculpture which towers over the entrance of the House of Representatives: A woman's arm is outstretched, protecting a child who sits blissfully atop a pile of books. This artwork is entitled, "Peace, Protecting Genius" Peace protecting genius. Not through nuclear arms, but with the arms of eternal love is a child genius is protected, and the child genius achieves peace through love and through education.
I am running for President of the United States to enable to goddess of peace to encircle within her reach all the children of this country and all the children of the world. And we would protect our children from poverty and war, to hold them in the light of grace, and to hold them in the power of peace. I am running for President of the United States to challenge this system which traps so many Americans, children and adults, in fear, in violence and poverty and makes us pay for wars we don't want and causes us to sacrifice our childrens' future.
I am running for President of the United States to create a cabinet level department of peace and nonviolence. Fifty members of Congress already supported the bill I introduced in July of 2001. The Department of Peace will facilitate the dream and vision of Dr. Martin Luther King, that dream will still seek to make nonviolence an organizing principle of our society, and we can do that, though education, we can do that, through teaching our children peace, sharing, charity, giving and mutuality. We can do that through education that addresses the challenge of domestic violence, spousal abuse, child abuse, all of those afflicted which occur in our home and our society seldom to organizes to deal with. American can organize her collected efforts to focus on and to help free our homes from this violence. The Department of Peace knows that America does not have to be helpless in the face of violence in our schools, in the face of racial violence and violence against gays.
The same power, the same power that brought to our nation freedom bids us to free ourselves from the shackles of violence through making non-violence a structured part of the everyday life of our nation - to teach peace, to teach conflict resolution, to free our homes and to free our communities of violence, to prove that the American evolution is within and when peace becomes innermost it then becomes outermost in our communities and in our nations. The men and women who we treasure, who serve this country honorably, stand in Iraq because there are those who believe that war is inevitable. To believe that war is inevitable creates violence. As president I will work with leaders of the world to make war a thing of the past, to abolish nuclear weapons, America must lead in peace, and in rejoining the world community.
We must rejoin the world community through signing the biological weapons convention, the chemical weapons convention, the small arms treaty, the land mines treaty, join the international criminal court and sign the Kyoto climate change treaty, it time for America to rejoin the world!
And after we rejoin the world community, we can then work to make sure our principles of peace are carried aloft throughout the foundation and a moment when our brothers and sisters, Israelis and Palestenians alike find themselves locked into recursive conflict. This is the moment when the hand of peace proceeds to create conditions where all nations live together and coexist peacefully, is so needed, America cannot put its foot on the accelerator of war and advocate peace simultaneously!
Our work for peace will be strengthened when we repair breaks within our own society. Today, is the day to remind ourselves of the necessity of healing the grief with Native Americans, who were dispossessed when exploration turned to exploitation, and when the laws of the American Natives were excluded in the cause of all Americans. I have joined Congressman John Conyer's call to study reparations for those whose African American ancestors suffered enslavement. And let me tell you why I've done that- because we must recognize the debilitating effects of slavery which are with us still, the debilitating effects of racism which still exist. We must recognize this because so many of our African American brothers and sisters are locked still in prisons of poverty, substandard housing, unemployment, run-down schools, without health care, without hope. I know this. And my brother Gary, my brother Frank, my brother Larry, my sister Terry, my sister Beth, my brother Perry- We know this, because often we were the only Caucasian family living in a community of color. We know this.
This is not only about repairing the breach for African Americans, this is about healing our world, this is about what is called in the Jewish faith tikkun olam. We must heal the breach. We must heal the beach. We must begin this process of reconciliation and healing. We must be repairers of the breach, and we can help to repair the breach by having a nation which stands for jobs for all, health care for all, education for all. Let's use this as a moment to lift up America!
And we need, too, to stop the breaches that are occurring right now with an immigration policy which causes so many of our Latino brothers and sisters to be reduced to another kind of slavery because they have to come into America to try to receive an opportunity to survive financially, but they don't have the protection of law, they don't have the protection of the Fair Labor Standard Act, their children don't have health care, their children don't have education. We must do everything we can to create legalization and amnesty for immigrant workers; we must lift them up, too. We must be repairers of the breach! We must repair the breach for people of color.
And we must heal America from the pain and the suffering and the fear of 9/11 which, unfortunately, led this administration to attack a nation which did not attack us, and to pass a Patriot bill which undermines our civil liberties. America stands strongest in challenging terrorism when we do not give up an inch of our civil liberties, and when we cooperate with the world community in matters of international security. I ask you: how can we afford to be the policemen of the world, when we can't afford to hire police, firefighters, and EMS back here at home in our cities?
That is why this week I will be present in Congress to vote against funding 87 billion dollars for the occupation of Iraq. I am running for President of the United States to end the United States occupation of Iraq, and put an end to the lies which brought us into Iraq, and to help make this country whole again in the world community and to challenge those lies which, if left unchallenged, will cause this administration to lead this country into another war. We must challenge those lies! I am running for President of the United States to stop the hundreds of billions of our tax dollars from going towards the continued occupation of Iraq, and I am here at this moment to say that it is time to support our troops, and I say: Support our troops, bring them home! Bring them home. Bring them home.
People ask: Oh well, that sounds great, how can you do it? I put on my website, at www.kucinich.us, a few days ago an exit strategy to bring our troops home by New Years, and here's how we can do it. The United States must go to the UN with a resolution that has these features:
Number one: that the UN will handle all of the oil assets on behalf of the Iraqi people with no privatization- no privatization!- until the people of Iraq can handle their own affairs. Number two: that the UN will handle the contracts- no more Haliburton sweetheart deals! No more war profiteering, no more contracts going to political contributors of the administration. Number Three: that the UN handles the clause of creating new governance in Iraq, until the Iraqi people can handle their own affairs.
This is the moment that we need to reach out and connect with the world community once again. We can do that. We can bring the UN in and get the US out. We need to bring the UN in and get the US out, and to bring our troops home.
And I'm running for President to break the shackles of fear which have deprived our citizens of rights. The passage of the Patriot Act was an abomination and as President I intend to lead the effort to repeal it. We need to regain the trust of the American people and we need to have a government which trusts the American people.
This war threatens our civil liberties, our civil freedoms, our economic freedoms. The rising budget deficit, at national and state levels, will continue to mount with the continued occupation. Meanwhile, absolutely no attention is being paid to a rising trade deficit which is now approaching 450 billion dollars.
Americans have lost 3 million manufacturing jobs since July of 2000. NAFTA and the WTO have facilitated the movement of jobs out of America. Because you know and I know: corporations move where they can pay workers less. Corporations move where workers don't have rights, where nations provide little legal protection. America can change that. America can set new rules for trade, but to do that you must set aside NAFTA and the WTO. I'm running for President to cancel NAFTA and the WTO.
This is about fair trade. People ask: what will you do next? We return to bilateral trade. Everyone wants access to our market. We can help set the rules, and through setting the rules we can lift up the cause of all workers. And how can we do that specifically? We must put into our new bilateral trade agreements workers rights, the right to organize, the right to collective bargaining, the right to strike, the right to decent wages and benefits, the right to a safe workplace, the right to a secure retirement. We can put those into our trade agreements. We can protect American workers, and we can lift the cause of workers all over this world, and it is time to do that.
We need to remember another time when America was hurt economically, and an American President by the name of Franklin Delano Roosevelt faced a nation that was broken economically, and said "We have nothing to fear but fear itself", and enacted a range of social and economic programs to restore America. As the next President of the United States I intend to lead the way to restore our cities by having a new WPA-type program to rebuild our bridges, our roads, our water systems, our sewer systems, to build new energy systems. We can rebuild America; we can put millions and more back to work. I will work to create new jobs, too, with the help of the inventive genius of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, which here at Glen Research Center in Cleveland, we are privileged to have them work on creating the future of America.
Under my administration, NASA will help America lead the way in enabling the private sector to work with the public sector, through the licensing and purchase of the right to develop from the first stage: new technologies in research and energy, technologies in materials, technologies in communication, technologies in environmental protection, in medicine, technologies which are in propulsion. This cooperative private/public partnership will lead us in the meeting, in creating the industries of the future; will create new high-tech jobs. We can do that. We have the ability to do that today and I intend to help NASA lead the way to creating the new jobs.
And we can create new jobs, too, with a new approach to health care. We know. How many places in America, where businesses are laying off employees because they can no longer afford the cost of health care, where employees are seeing cutbacks in their health care benefits, because of a health care system that is no longer about people.
Last month, I introduced a bill which takes the profit out of health care, together with John Conyers and Jim McDermott. This proposal brings to the American people a universal, single-payer system, Medicare for all. It is time for health care for people, not for profit. You know. You know. You know and I know that insurance companies make money not providing health care. They make money by stopping people from getting the care they need. They make money by making insurance agents more powerful than doctors. They make money because they are interested only in profit.
Universal, single-payer, health care: this proposal that I am talking about covers all medically necessary procedures, complimentary and alternative medicine. Insurance companies don't make money when people aren't sick. Yet, we have people in this country who can't afford to be sick and they can't afford to be well. But complimentary and alternative medicine is included in a universal health care proposal. And it includes vision care, and it includes dental health care.
Let me tell you, this smile did not come cheap. And all the children of America should have a beautiful smile, but we know that the rising cost of health care, and particularly the costs of dental care, takes proper dental care out of the reach of many families. And so what I intend to do as the next president, is to make sure that this provision for dental health care is included in a universal health care bill.
It will also include long-term care. Some baby boomers are still fortunate to still have their parents with them, and I will tell you: as we learn about the cost of nursing home care we know that some families have to give up everything they work for because of the cost of nursing home care. My proposal for universal health care covers long-term care. No more health poverty in America because people need long-term care! It covers mental health care. It covers prescription drugs.
In my district in Cleveland Ohio, senior citizens are splitting their pills to try to make prescriptions last. They are giving up meals or giving up purchases of clothing to be able to pay for the high cost of prescription drugs. This proposal for universal health care includes a fully- funded prescription drug benefit, another way to take our people out of health poverty.
People ask me, "Oh, sounds great. How can you do this?" We are already paying for universal health care. We're not getting it. Why aren't we getting it? Because the health care dollar involves stock options, executive salaries, high profits, lobbying, marketing, advertising, the high cost of paper work! We want the health care dollar to go into caring for people and that is exactly what this proposal does. No more bankruptcies for health care. No more health care poverty in America. No more premiums, no more co-pays, no more deductibles. We are already paying for universal health care, we're not getting it.
It's time, America and it's time, too, to make corporations accountable to the American people; to require that they tell the truth to their shareholders; to require that they tell the truth to their investors; to require that they tell the truth to their employees, to their retirees; that they tell the truth.
And I will bring to the Presidency of the United States, an independence to insist on a higher standard of conduct for Wall Street and its captains. It was a century ago when America had a president, Theodore Roosevelt, who took on the trusts of his era; who challenged the monopolies of his time. I say that now is the time to, once again, break up the monopolies and restore competition in our economy. And we must do so again on behalf of small businesses, and on behalf of family farmers. And as president, I will move to break up the monopolies in agriculture, which strangle the market from seed to shelf. And to make sure that our family farmers are able to get their product to market and get the price that they are entitled to.
Of course as Peter, and C.J., and Jay and others have pointed out, I have some experience in dealing with monopolies. It was here. It was here in this very Council Chambers, 25 years ago that I had the privilege of stopping the sale of Cleveland's municipal electric system. And stopping the takeover of our public power by a utility monopoly because I recognized then, as I recognize now, that it matters how much people pay for electricity. That's why I fought to make sure that the people of this community would be able to have access to cheaper power.
I'll share with you a story from that time 25 years ago. The very day that I said "no" to the sale of our municipal electric system- on December the 15th, 1978- I was thinking, brothers and sisters, Frank and Gary: I was thinking about when we lived above Martha's Delicatessen at 10712 St. Clair. And I was thinking about Mom and Dad sitting at the kitchen table counting the pennies so they would have money to pay the utility bill. I can still hear those pennies dropping…click, click, click on that tabletop. I could hear that on that day when I was asked to sell Cleveland's municipal electric system.
Oh, I want all of you to know that I remember where I came from. I want all of you to know that. Because, there are so many families in America, so many families struggling to hold on to their homes, to hold on to their health care, to hold on to their retirement security, to hold on to their education funds, that it matters how much people pay for electricity, for gas, for home heating oil, for food, for health care, for education. These kitchen-table issues always bring us home…if we know where home is.
Cleveland is my home. Cleveland is where my heart resides. Cleveland is where my dreams started. Cleveland is where I've learned the lessons I want to share with every American: The lesson that one person can make a difference; the lesson that anyone can, and anyone should be able to rise from humble beginnings to lead a nation; the lesson that we can change the outcome; the lesson of the power of the human heart, and the power of the human spirit to transform the world. I have seen miracles. I have seen the people of Cleveland create miracles. During my career you have helped me to save a municipal electric system when it was already sold. You have helped me to keep hospitals open when they were already closed. You have helped me to save a steel mill, to help keep that bright light burning over the industrial valley when other communities' hopes were extinguished. Because of you, because of you, because of you, I know the power of hope, the power of optimism, the power of light!
Years ago, my grandfather, John Kucinich, now the name was spelled K-u-c-i-n-i-c. When he came over on the boat, they added the "h". A lot of names were changed there: K-u-c-i-n-i-c. When he came over, because he pronounced it "Kuchinich", they added the "h" on. So now, Gary, anytime somebody tells me to "get the h out of there," I think they're talking about my grandfather. And my grandfather, when he traveled from Croatia as a very young man, he traveled to Ellis Island, and he was welcomed by a light as well. He was welcomed by the light of Liberty. The Statue of Liberty that holds its lamp high, and on the base of the Statue of Liberty, there's that inscription by Emma Lazarus: "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, the wretched refuse of your teeming shores. Send these tempest-tossed, to me. I lift my lamp, beside the golden door". The tens of millions who journeyed to this nation, from other lands, connect us in fact and in spirit to the entire world. And in this campaign they connect us to the highest aspirations of everyone who ever journeyed here. To become full partners, Peter Lawson Jones, full partners in the life of our nation.
So, by the lights which guided my grandfather to America; by the light still shining celebrating public power; by the lights which still emblazon the sky over Cleveland's steel valley, I stand here, ready to light up America. I am Dennis John Kucinich and I am running for President of the United States!
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Endangered listing eyed for US loggerhead turtles
(AP) -- The federal government on Wednesday recommended an endangered-species listing for the loggerhead turtles in U.S. waters, a decision that could lead to tighter restrictions on fishing and other maritime trades.
The massive, nomadic sea turtles have been listed since 1978 as threatened, a step below endangered, but federal scientists proposed ratcheting up the designation after reviewing the state of the species.
Researchers said primary threats to the loggerheads include injury and death from fishing gear and damage to their nesting areas.
The joint proposal by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's fisheries division and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is not a final decision. If approved, it puts loggerheads on track for an endangered listing by the summer of 2011. The proposal now enters a public comment period.
Environmental groups who'd been pushing an endangered listing said the proposal was a "turning point" they hope will lead to greater turtle protections.
"I think it's huge day for loggerhead sea turtles," said Elizabeth Griffin, a marine wildlife scientist at Oceana. "I think it really draws attention to the fact these turtles are not doing well and more needs to be done to protect them."
No one really knows how many loggerheads there are, or how many are being killed by fishing gear or other activities. A species doesn't need falling numbers to be endangered, it can get the listing if it's shown to be threatened by one of five factors, such as disease or "manmade factors affecting its continued existence."
Griffin cites a 40 percent drop in the number of nesting females in Florida over the last decade as evidence of trouble. But the Fisheries Survival Fund, an East Coast scallopers group, said in a letter early this month that nesting beach surveys can't provide good evidence of decline because they measure only mature females, who take at least 30 years to reach breeding age.
Shaun Gehan, an attorney for the Fisheries Survival Fund, said an endangered listing is unneeded for a species there's no evidence is in danger of extinction. If new protections are mandated for the turtle, it could affect not only fishermen, but maritime traffic, coastal development and waterfront use, Gehan said.
"We are extremely disappointed that they've taken this approach," he said.
Loggerheads are named for their large heads, which contain potent jaws that can crush the hard shells of prey such as conch. The turtles are about the size of a fist when they hatch and make a frenzied dash to the surf. But they typically grow to more than three feet in length and 250 pounds. The animal can log thousands of miles as it travels across oceans.
Barbara Schroeder, national sea turtle coordinator for NOAA's fisheries division, said the biggest threats to the North Pacific loggerhead include damage to primary nesting sites, which are mainly in Japan, as well as accidental snaring of the turtles in fishing gear.
Andrea Treece of San Francisco-based Center for Biological Diversity said the turtles get hooked by Hawaiian longline fishermen targeting swordfish and tuna and can be injured or drowned.
On the East Coast, the main threat to turtles is gear from the region's various fisheries, Schroeder said.
Gehan said that scallopers have developed dredges to keep the turtles out with a chain mat that covers the opening. Critics say the dredges keep turtles out, but also crush them, though survival fund officials say there's no evidence of that.
A primary benefit of the endangered status would be increased public pressure on protecting the species, Griffin said. But the government would also have to determine "critical habitats," such as where the turtles reproduce or forage. Such places could be subject to additional protections for the turtles, including restrictions on maritime development or fishing.
A balance needs to be found to help a species Griffin called "the ambassadors of our oceans" because they travel great distances and can be seen up close when they venture on land.
"I think that really gives people an appreciation for our turtles and marine life," she said.
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A couple of week's ago, Dan Lepard published a delicious sounding recipe for Orange Custard Cream Cupcakes in The Guardian. These beautiful cupcakes were made with cream in the batter instead of milk, and were filled with an orange custard.
To make some concessions to my waistline, I left out the orange custard, which was based entirely on cream, but I made the cupcakes using the cream, and was pleasantly surprised:
The icing, made with orange juice and zest, provides a lovely fresh flavour to the cupcakes, so don't skip it.
These cupcakes are tangy, moist and soft, at least partially due to the cream. The cupcakes went in a flash at work - the proof of the pudding is in the eating, I say!


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All-around trail performance
Bontrager's Evoke Mountain Bike Shoe delivers all-around performance for the most rugged adventures. Equipped with a grippy Tachyon rubber sole and reinforced with GnarGuard, Evoke keeps you planted on and off the bike while refusing to yield to the nastiest of trail debris.
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- inForm Race last offers a slightly roomier, high-performance fit
- A single BOA® L6 dial for precision fit and easy micro-adjustments
- Strong, synthetic perforated upper materials hold up to off-road rider demands
- Durable GnarGuard rubberized coating protects against abrasions and other damage from trail debris
- Nylon composite Bronze Series sole provides stiff yet walkable performance
- Stiffness index: 6 of 14
- Tachyon rubber outsole allows great grip on any surface
- Compatible with 2-bolt SPD-style cleats


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Arch Stone Ventures the real estate arm of the SAS Group, is an integrated property development company headquartered in Kalyan Nagar, India, with presence across 4 asset classes. Arch Stone Ventures develops state-of- the-art Homes, Hotels, Office Buildings and Shopping Malls. In few years of operations, the company has more than 20 lakhs sq. ft. Of premium living, retail and work spaces under various stages of development.
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The Tizen App Store was officially announced today at the Tizen Developer Conference, and it will be the goto place for all your application needs. The store isn't accessible to the general public yet, but is open for developers to submit their apps (seller.tizenstore.com). Registration and publishing apps is free, and the promise to developers is that their apps will be validated within 3 days of being submitted for approval.
The Tizen Store is pretty much everything you expect from a modern App Store, however it does have a couple of novel features. One of them is the 'Discounted' section. So if any app is on sale, it will automatically show up there. The performance seemed smooth, and the UI kind of reminds of the Nokia Store on the N9, and parts of Google Play.
Here is a detailed look at the Tizen App Store running on a a Tizen phone:


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Chuck has some static on his end. Sorry about that...
Congrats chuck!
Still outstanding are one Ture20 book (BNF) and two GM Mastery books. The reprint of NPC Essentials will take some time as I've lost the original (doah!) and need to have it scanned.
Here's a complete list of books In Stock:
Both editions collect the core books in the series plus some extras. To avoid confusion, I disable the old versions.
If you purchased most of the respective series, you had the new editions added to your account. If not, you'll have to buy the new edition. However, the sale price of consolidated editions if lower than it would have been to buy the whole series.


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Cronología de la violencia
[November 2012] 'Timeline of Violence' reflects on the death toll and cycles of killing in the Israeli-Palestinian issue, drawing on detailed data gathered by B'Tselem since the outbreak of the Second Intifada in September 2000. The graphic was released in November 2012 by Al Jazeera, amidst Operation Pillar of Cloud, the Israeli bombardment of Gaza. News coverage consistently described the bombardment as defensive, a response to a protracted barrage of Hamas rockets. The graphic called this coverage into question by displaying the stark disparity between Palestinians and Israelis killed since 2000.
B'Tselem, 2012. Statistics (accessed on November 2012)
Huffington Post, 2009. Reigniting Violence: How Do Ceasefires End? (accessed on November 2012)
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UK govt to KILL OFF Directgov within weeks
Replacement GOV.UK nearly ready for showtime
New Labour's Directgov is about to be tossed into the rubbish bin, after it was revealed today that Britain's public services website would be replaced by the Cabinet Office's single government domain on 17 October.
That project, dubbed GOV.UK, surfaced into public view in May 2011 when Francis Maude's department initially coughed up £261,000 on the development of the post-Directgov site.
Since then, a small group of coders - led by Tom Loosemore - have morphed into a big team called Government Digital Service (GDS), whose offices are based in Kingsway, London's Aviation House. And the budget, too, has ballooned.
Directgov's death warrant confirmed
Maude told MPs in July this year that the current cost to the public purse of GOV.UK for 2011/2012 stood at £4.6m. He added that the most recent budget for Directgov - which obviously has been a live site used by millions of Brits needing access to public services online - was £21m as of the 2010/2011 period.
"Moving departmental websites onto GOV.UK will, in due course, realise significant savings for the taxpayer," the Cabinet minister has claimed.
That shift is now about to become a reality. Although, sadly the Cabinet Office isn't making a huge song-and-dance about the soon-to-be-dead Directgov, which launched in April 2004.
Nor is it responding to The Register's questions about what will happen to any remaining staff still working on Directgov.
GOV.UK, meanwhile, is expected to prettify the whole experience of using public services online by behaving a lot more like Google's search engine. Buzzwords haven't been lost on the GDS team, either: this thing is "agile", "open... where possible" and it's hosted in the cloud. And many of the ideas for the site started life on a simple post-it note.
The Cabinet Office has also been busily working on a so-called ID assurance scheme to farm out the handling of identity credentials online to the private sector. It's a project likely to eventually need primary legislation but is also expected to serve as the beating heart of GOV.UK. The current Microsoft-developed Government Gateway logon service created for Directgov is also being killed off. ®


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This is a program targeting Mill Valley and Southern Marin residents (zip codes 94920, 94925, 94965) to encourage patronage in the downtown area of Mill Valley.
Visitors can park in any of the metered spaces up to the time limit posted. Additional parking is available for all patrons in the public parking lot across from the Depot.
Employees are encouraged to purchase the Employee parking permit which enables parking 9 am to 3:30 pm seven days a week at all "E" parking spaces. The Mill Valley Chamber of Commerce sells Employee parking permits.
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Remove the permit from your vehicle and return it to the Police Department to purchase a replacement permit for $10.
Mill Valley and eligible neighboring residents may purchase up to four permits per residence. All vehicles must be registered to an eligible address.
The Resident Shopper Vehicle Permit (RSVP) parking program is designed to make it convenient and inviting for Mill Valley and Southern Marin residents to shop, eat and visit downtown Mill Valley. The RSVP allows residents to park in any of the city's metered spaces without paying the meter seven days a week from 9 am to 6 pm.
The parking permit must be placed on the outside of your vehicle, either on the back bumper or the back window, on the driver's side. If the permit is not properly displayed, you may be issued a citation.
Yes. All meters will be free to patrons, up to the meter limit, from Thanksgiving through New Year's Eve, as has been the tradition during the holiday shopping season.
If you have an RSVP and believe you received a citation in error, please contact the Mill Valley Police Department at:
You may purchase the new 2023 permits online, by mail, or come to the Mill Valley Police Department Monday through Thursday 8 am to 5 pm, Friday 8 am to 4 pm.
Note: Replacement permits may only be purchased by mail or in-person.
Address:Mill Valley Police Department1 Hamilton DriveMill Valley, CA 94941
The RSVP is reduced to half price beginning June 1st to December 31st of the current permit year.


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LOS ANGELES (AP) — Los Angeles police Chief Charlie Beck says the review of ex-officer Christopher Dorner's firing is under way, but it's too early to comment on the re-examination.
Beck told a press conference Tuesday that he doesn't discount the effect that Dorner's manifesto has had on the reputation of the Police Department.
Dorner, who was black, claimed he was subjected to racism and was targeted for reporting misconduct. He died of an apparently self-inflicted gunshot during a mountain cabin siege that followed a spree of violence in which authorities say he killed four people and wounded three.
Beck says he hopes the $1 million reward offered during the manhunt will be paid. But he says it has to be done fairly, whether it goes to one individual or is split among several.


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Open Graphics Library (OpenGL)
SGI originally developed a graphics library called IrisGL for their high-end 3D hardware. They made some clever changes to make it work on any platform and renamed it OpenGL. Very recently SGI relaxed their restrictions for licensing and also released conformance tests for OpenGL. OpenGL abstracts 3D operations such as projections, lighting, rendering, texturing, matrix operations, etc, making it very easy for developers to produce high quality 3D applications.
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REDMOND, Wash.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nintendo of America today announced plans to drop the suggested retail price of its portable Nintendo 3DS™ system to $169.99 in the United States, as new games based on some of the world's most beloved video game franchises head to the system. The new price, down from the suggested launch price of $249.99 and effective Aug. 12, makes an outstanding value even better and sets up a strong holiday season for the system.
"For anyone who was on the fence about buying a Nintendo 3DS, this is a huge motivation to buy now," said Nintendo of America President Reggie Fils-Aime. "We are giving shoppers every incentive to pick up a Nintendo 3DS, from an amazing new price to a rapid-fire succession of great games."
Nintendo 3DS has the strongest software lineup of any video game system this holiday season and the new price now opens up the glasses-free 3D experience to many more consumers. Building on the popularity of The Legend of Zelda™: Ocarina of Time™ 3D, which launched June 19, the upcoming game calendar is a Who's Who of iconic video game franchises. Star Fox 64™ 3D arrives on Sept. 9, followed by Super Mario™ 3D Land in November, Mario Kart™ 7 in December and Kid Icarus™: Uprising during the holiday season.
In addition to great games, Nintendo 3DS has a host of attractive features* that make it the must-have video game system this season:
- The new Nintendo Video™ service automatically delivers short 3D videos from the worlds of music, comedy, animation and Hollywood.
- A free application allows Netflix members with unlimited streaming plans to instantly watch TV episodes and movies streaming from Netflix.
- The Nintendo eShop is a digital store for Nintendo 3DS owners that provides access to a wide variety of downloadable content, such as original 3D software, classic games that have been re-mastered in 3D called 3D Classics, Game Boy™ and Game Boy Color "Virtual Console" games in their original 2D glory, and more than 350 Nintendo DSiWare™ games. Visitors can also view video game trailers, screen shots and product information for games, including those available at retail locations.
Since Nintendo 3DS launched in the United States on March 27, more than 830,000 people in the U.S. alone have purchased one to enjoy 3D visuals without the need for special glasses. These Nintendo 3DS owners represent some of Nintendo's most loyal customers, and Nintendo is rewarding them for getting in on the action early with 20 free downloadable games from the Nintendo eShop.
These free games are available to anyone who owns a Nintendo 3DS system and uses a wireless broadband Internet signal to connect to the Nintendo eShop at least once before 11:59 p.m. Eastern time on Aug. 11. These users will automatically be registered in the Nintendo 3DS Ambassador program. The program contains two elements:
- Starting Sept. 1, Nintendo 3DS Ambassadors will be able to download 10 NES™ Virtual Console™ games at no charge and before they are available in the Nintendo eShop to the general public. These games, including Super Mario Bros.™, Donkey Kong Jr.™, Balloon Fight™, Ice Climber™ and The Legend of Zelda™, are slated to become paid downloadable games, but Ambassadors get them early for free. Once the paid versions of the games are posted to the Nintendo eShop later in the year, the updated versions will be available to Ambassadors for download at no cost.
- By the end of 2011, Nintendo will provide Ambassadors with 10 Game Boy Advance Virtual Console games. These include games like Yoshi's Island™: Super Mario™ Advance 3, Mario Kart™: Super Circuit, Metroid™ Fusion, WarioWare™, Inc.: Mega Microgame$ and Mario vs. Donkey Kong™. These games will be available exclusively to Ambassadors, and Nintendo currently has no plans to make these 10 games available to the general public on the Nintendo 3DS in the future.
More details about this program will be announced in the future.
Remember that Nintendo 3DS features parental controls that let adults manage the content their children can access. For more information about this and other features, visit http://www.nintendo.com/3ds.
*Some features require a broadband Internet connection.
About Nintendo: The worldwide pioneer in the creation of interactive entertainment, Nintendo Co., Ltd., of Kyoto, Japan, manufactures and markets hardware and software for its Wii™ home console, Nintendo 3DS™ and Nintendo DS™ family of portable systems. Since 1983, when it launched the Nintendo Entertainment System™, Nintendo has sold more than 3.7 billion video games and more than 600 million hardware units globally, including the current-generation Wii, Nintendo 3DS, Nintendo DS, Nintendo DSi™ and Nintendo DSi XL™, as well as the Game Boy™, Game Boy Advance, Super NES™, Nintendo 64™ and Nintendo GameCube™ systems. It has also created industry icons that have become well-known, household names such as Mario™, Donkey Kong™, Metroid™, Zelda™ and Pokémon™. A wholly owned subsidiary, Nintendo of America Inc., based in Redmond, Wash., serves as headquarters for Nintendo's operations in the Western Hemisphere. For more information about Nintendo, please visit the company's website at http://www.nintendo.com.
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- Place where the work was made
- Date
- 1998
- Media category
- Drawing
- Materials used
- pastel on white wove paper
- Dimensions
- 60.0 x 76.0 cm image/sheet (irreg.)
- Signature & date
Signed lower c. verso, pencil "HECTOR". Not dated.
- Credit
- Purchased 2002
- Location
- Not on display
- Accession number
- 303.2002.21
- Copyright
- © Estate of Hector Jandany, Warmun Arts Centre/Copyright Agency
- Artist information
Hector Jandany
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The Jirrawun Suite is a unique collection of 23 drawings and paintings by three prominent Gija artists - Hector Jandany, Paddy Bedford and Rusty Peters. The works were made in Melbourne in 1998 where the artists had access to a studio prior to an exhibition. These are seminal works on paper in gouache and pastel created by the Jirrawun artists in the early days of the establishment of the corporation by Freddie Timms. As such, they capture the energy of the period and are a strong affirmation of Gija culture and pride.
Hector Jandany, a Gija visual artist, is cultural and spiritual leader of the Gija people at Warmun community (Turkey Creek) in WA where he was born. Working for many years on neighbouring stations before moving back to Warmun, Jandany is committed to two-way education and was instrumental in helping establish the bi-cultural school at Warmun in the 1970s. He began painting in the 1980s along with artists such as Paddy Jaminji, Jack Britten and Rover Thomas. All were painting boards for the Gurrirr Gurrirr ceremony. A senior Gija law man Jandany has participated in a number of significant group exhibitions and recently had a solo exhibition in Perth. His work is held in many national, state and overseas collections. The three works by Jandany in this suite make a sharp contrast to the work of the other artists in their distinctive rendering of Gija regional iconography.
© Australian Art Department, Art Gallery of New South Wales, 2002
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text: "Intel's plans to overhaul its desktop processors early next year have been detailed almost entirely in a roadmap published today. The lineup is now believed to be headlined by low-powered S versions of the Core i5-750 and i7-860 that will run all four cores at 2.4GHz and 2.53GHz respectively; they should use just 82W of power versus 95W or more and fit into tighter spaces. Each will have 8MB of Level 2 cache, though the Core i7 chips will scale up to 3.46GHz where the Core i5 will stop at 3.2GHz."


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Redemption of a Decade in Philippine Cinema
by Francis Joseph A. Cruz
We are a sentimental people. We thrive in captured memories: photographs of ourselves backdropped by famous locations in lands we've visited, memorabilia from baptisms, weddings, and anniversaries, essential souvenirs from personally important events in our lives. We are constantly nagged by a fear that lest we have tangible representation of points of reminiscence, we tend to forget. And we do forget.
Our country's history is haunted constantly by recurring themes of failures, followed by great victories, followed by forgetting, followed by failures, and so on. We establish monuments, statues, and shrines. We name schools, streets and bridges by events or people that would supposedly inspire us to remember.
We are a nation of forgetful people who constantly scrounge for objects to remember. That is our fault. That is also our virtue.
Perhaps the biggest representation of this irony is our cinema. We are proud of it, sure. We rejoice when a Filipino film wins awards overseas. Unfortunately, jubilation is fleeting, if not totally hypocritical. We only recognize our cinema when it receives foreign accolades. Without them and quite horrifically, with them sometimes, our cinema is treated like junk – both symbolically and literally – thrown in un-airconditioned basements and warehouses to burn or rot.
We remember the greats – the films of Brocka, Bernal, the two De Leons, and Conde – yet we are completely unaware that almost all of their films are inexistent in their original formats, most of their films are available in substandard digital copies, and some of their films are completely lost.
What we have left are descriptions, perhaps two or three paragraphs at most, to have us remember these films which we absolutely have no memories of.
Inasmuch as preserving films are important, the act of chronicling films, whether analytically or journalistically, is essential in recreating memories out of nothing, caused by the failure of a people that views cinema as a disposable thing of the present instead of a cultural stronghold.
It is for this reason that Dr. Nicanor Tiongson should be commended for coming up with The Urian Anthology 1990-1999, a handsome yet heavyset tome containing memories – mostly good with sprinklings of some bad – of a contestable decade in Philippine cinema.
It is an elegant book. Its cover, a sepia-hued collage of several scenes from films, mostly historical and involving national heroes portrayed by different actors and actresses, seduces the onlooker to reminisce the decade when glamorous historical epics apologized for the numerous titillating showcases and brash comedies that populated movie houses.
The decade, described by Tiongson as the "best of times, the worst of times," saw Philippine commercial cinema at its lowest, where studios literally and figuratively prostituted itself and its talents to battle imports. Yet the decade also showed glimmers of excellence, where filmmakers and even studios experimented and, in turn, paved the way for the seeds of what was to come the next decade.
A quick skim through the pages reflects the differing facets that defined the decade. Stills from the numerous films adorn the margins of the book, detailing the highs and lows of cinema, where the same actors played national heroes and rapists, the same actresses portrayed dignified women and prostitutes.
The reviews, selected by Tiongson from the Manunuri's own roster of critics ranging from the enlightening like Hammy Sotto to the populists like Butch Francisco, are important because most of them reflect the critical reaction during the time of the film's release, approximating, at least to the current reader, how a film was over-appraised or under-appraised.
The various articles, academically rationalizing the pleasant and unpleasant movements and genres that emerged out of the dire economic circumstance of the industry, are springboards for discourse.
The interviews of the decade's defining filmmakers are also interesting, especially those of filmmakers who continue to work today who might have sacrificed some of the artistry they preach about to survive the dehumanizing rigors of present-day commercial filmmaking.
For whatever its worth, for however critics and filmmakers acknowledge it now, the decade that Tiongson's indispensible labor of love gives focus to, as exemplified by the collection of articles that seeks not to blindly honor but only to document the decade that passed, is an amalgam of colors, themes, moralities, and levels of artistry that Philippine cinema is evolving into.
Little by little, as a subtle thread of a narrative develops as Tiongson's carefully conceived book closes to a finish with filmographies of the decade, we acknowledge that Philippine cinema lives – through the good times and the bad.
Personalities pass. Directors retire. Studios fold. Cinema continues, constantly reinventing itself, constantly changing. The Urian Anthology 1990-1991 is the suitable memoir for this nation of forgetful filmgoers to remember that cinema is of value and should be valued.
I just hope that we do not become content with articles and pictures, and start watching these films, and if they are unavailable because of reasons beyond our control, start clamoring the government for a film archive to save us from the dangers of forgetting.
(First published in Starweek Magazine, 24 October 2010)


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Red Mango, one of the fastest-growing retailers of all-natural frozen yogurt and fresh fruit smoothies, is launching this week a national rollout of an expanded menu that features 22 brand new probiotic smoothies in four lifestyle-centered categories:
Body Balance: Flavorful and functional yogurt smoothies formulated with beneficial boosts, such as The Pomegranate Protector and The Honey Badger Fat Burner.
All Fruit Harmony: Refreshing dairy-free and soy-free smoothies made only with fruit, juice and ice, such as The Berry Medley Hibiscus and The Strawberry Sonata.
Twisted Fruits: Smooth and creamy signature yogurt smoothies offered in new and innovative fruit-forward flavors.
Just Kidd'n: Naturally delicious, snack-sized fruit and yogurt smoothies, blended just for kids.
The new smoothies, which will join the company's existing selection of Fruit & Yogurt, Poppin' Boba, Spoonable and Mealworthy Smoothies, will be introduced as part of the "Red Mango Summer of Super Biotic Smoothies", a marketing campaign designed by the company to highlight both the company's new smoothie offerings, as well as the patented probiotics in Red Mango yogurt and smoothies that are stronger and more effective than the generic probiotics commonly found in ordinary yogurt.
"At Red Mango, we fortify all of our frozen yogurt and yogurt-based smoothies with a special type of probiotics called Super Biotics," says Dan Kim, founder and chief concept officer of Red Mango. "They're super because unlike the extremely fragile probiotics in most ordinary yogurt, Super Biotics have been clinically proven to survive the strong acids in our stomachs so that they can actually do their job keeping our digestive and immune systems healthy when we eat right and exercise too."
The new Super Biotic Smoothies will more than double the company's current offering of 14 smoothie flavors. "The fact that we now offer twice as many fresh fruit smoothies as before speaks to our ongoing commitment to growing the yogurt and smoothie industry, and taking it to higher levels with superior standards," continues Kim. "Fans of Red Mango are really going to love these new smoothies not only because of their unique Super Biotic health benefits, but also because we made sure that they're fun, innovative, and extremely flavorful."
Red Mango is also introducing a brand new line of smoothie boosts that have been formulated to meet the nutritional and dietary needs of today's health-conscious consumers who find it increasingly important to embrace a wholesome, well-balanced diet. In addition to the protein, energy, immunity and multivitamin boosts currently available, Red Mango has added four new boosts which have been formulated with natural, wholesome and innovative ingredients:
Metabolic Fit 360: A proprietary blend of protein, calcium, and African Mango; shown to help reduce body fat, support metabolic balance, and promote healthy weight management.
Dark Chocolate Mate: Finely ground, Brazilian roasted mate and dark chocolate; a delicious, rich, low-calorie flavor which also supplies a nice dose of antioxidants.
Tropical Hibiscus: Finely ground, premium Nigerian hibiscus blossoms infused with natural pineapple and lychee; a bright and tropical low-calorie flavor and antioxidant boost.
Green Tea Acai: Finely ground, premium green tea with acai berries, the Amazonian superfruit; a low-calorie antioxidant boost made with the best ingredients.
To celebrate the launch of the Red Mango Summer of Super Biotic Smoothies in a fun and memorable way, each participating Red Mango store will be giving away limited-edition Super Biotic and superhero-themed memorabilia to the first 250 guests who order a Red Mango smoothie on Saturday, June 29, 2013. "We're big fans of superheroes and ninjas here at Red Mango, so we decided to bring them to life for the introduction of our Super Biotic Smoothies," says Kim. "If you're wondering what we'll be giving away, you'll have to stop by a Red Mango store on June 29… or look for leaks that just might surface on Facebook and Twitter!"


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Cardinals ticket prices start at just $5 for many games
ST. LOUIS, MO (February 24, 2014) –The St. Louis Cardinals announced today that individual tickets for the 2014 season will go on sale this Friday, February 28th beginning at 10 a.m. CT.
Fans who wish to purchase tickets to three or more games will receive early access to take part in a special online-only "multi-game" on-sale beginning Wednesday, February 26th at 10 a.m. CT.
In addition to hosting traditional rivals such as the Cubs, Dodgers and Giants, the Cardinals' 2014 home schedule features highly anticipated interleague matchups with the New York Yankees (May 26-28) in Derek Jeter's final season, as well as a World Series rematch with the Boston Red Sox (August 5-7). The 2014 schedule also includes over 35 promotional giveaway dates, featuring popular favorites such as five replica jerseys, five bobbleheads, three replica Championship rings and many more.
While ticket demand is expected to be high coming off the team's second NL Championship in three years, the Cardinals will continue to offer great values in 2014 with ticket prices starting as low as $5.
"Coming to Busch Stadium should be both an enjoyable and affordable experience for our fans," said Bill DeWitt III, President of the Cardinals. "Thanks to our dynamic ticket pricing system, we're able to provide better deals on a consistent basis."
The Cardinals' dynamic pricing system allows the team to more accurately price tickets for individual games and provide fans more value. In 2013, over 50% of games featured tickets available for $10 or less.
Throughout the season, the team will continue to offer "Dynamic Deals of the Week" highlighting outstanding ticket savings for fans, as well as a host of other fan-friendly values which can be found at cardinals.com/fanvalues.
The multi-game sale and Friday single-game on-sale are both available online at cardinals.com. In addition, tickets will be available for Friday's on-sale via phone at 314-345-9000 or in person at all Cardinals Clubhouse Stores and at the Busch Stadium Ticket Windows and kiosks.
A full list of fan-friendly values for the 2014 Season follows.
Fan-Friendly Values 2014
- Dynamic Pricing: Ticket prices fluctuate based on market value, meaning many games feature tickets as low as $5.
- Great Promotional Giveaways: Premium items including five replica jerseys, three replica rings and five bobbleheads highlight a season of over 35 stadium giveaways and special promotions.
- Outside Food & Drinks at All Games: Busch Stadium is the only St. Louis sports venue where fans may bring in their own food and drinks for all home games (some size and content restrictions apply).
- Hunter Family Sundays: On most Sundays, fans who purchase RF/LF Pavilion and RF Terrace tickets will receive a free Hunter hot dog and Coca-Cola.
- Prairie Farms Ice Cream Sundays: Two hours prior to each Sunday game, enjoy games, prizes and FREE Prairie Farms ice cream and North Star frozen treats in the Ford Plaza.
- Six Flags Double Play Combo: Get a Cardinals game ticket and a Six Flags ticket for only $60.
- AAA Member Discounts: AAA members receive a $10 discount off select Monday-Thursday home game tickets.
- Fill Up at Phillips 66: Fill up with eight (8) gallons or more at a participating Phillips 66 to receive a special discount ticket offer of up to 50% off many 2014 games.
- KMOX 1120 First Pitch Tickets: At 9 a.m. CT on the day of each home game, fans may purchase a voucher good for two tickets for just $11.20 ($5.60 per ticket). Fans redeem their vouchers for actual tickets 15 minutes prior to game time. Tickets may be anywhere in the stadium from Field Box to Standing Room.
- Ticket Packs: Several different 5-game and 10-game ticket packs, which feature discounted tickets to 2014's best promotional giveaways and highest demand games.
- Group Value Nights: Select games throughout the season where groups of 25 or more receive 50% off regular ticket prices.
- Cards Cash: Stored money built into the barcode of your ticket, good for use at any Busch Stadium concession stand, kiosk or Team Store. Fans can add $12 Cards Cast to a ticket for just $10.
For more details, visit cardinals.com/fanvalues.


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John Deere construction training simulators come at a fraction of the cost of an actual training machine and put new operators in the driver's seat. Literally.
Using virtual job-site situations and realistic graphics, Deere's construction simulators teach proper operator technique, machine controls, and safe operation through a series of four detailed lessons: excavator operator, crawler dozer operator, wheel loader operator, and motor grader operator. After completing each lesson, operators receive immediate feedback on their performance; lessons are based on budget scoring and real job-site profitability numbers identify operator strengths and weaknesses.
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John Deere construction simulators can offer a multitude of advantages for those operating construction and heavy equipment. In today's digital era, operators can avoid job-site hazards, safety violations, and equipment damage by buckling up in the driver's seat for a virtual John Deere training session. Training operators on construction equipment has never been so cheap—or easy.


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As cloud computing speeds ahead, privacy protections are too often being left in the dust.
Loosely defined, cloud computing involves programs or services that run on Internet servers. Despite the buzz surrounding it, the idea isn't new--think Webmail. But huge benefits, such as being able to gain access to your data from anywhere and not having to worry about backups, have led more people to leap to the Internet to do everything from writing documents and watching movies to managing their businesses. Unfortunately, privacy is often still stuck at home.
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Archaic laws that focus on where your information is, rather than what it is, are part of the problem. But a disturbing lack of respect for essential privacy among industry heavyweights who should know better is also evident.
Consider comments that Google CEO Eric Schmidt made during a recent CNBC interview. In response to the question, "People are treating Google like their most trusted friend. Should they be?" Schmidt responded, "If you have something that you don't want anyone to know, maybe you shouldn't be doing it in the first place.
This kind of "only the guilty have anything to hide" mindset is a privacy killer, and rests on the completely flawed notion that people want privacy only when they're doing something wrong. There's nothing wrong with my taking a shower or searching for information about a medical condition. But it's still private.
It's possible Schmidt spoke without thinking--Google is mum for now on the prospect of issuing a clarification of any kind. But meanwhile, privacy is taking a pounding in other areas, as well.
Last summer, a U.S. District Court judge in Oregon ruled that government law enforcement agencies need not provide you with a copy of a warrant they have obtained in order to read all of your e-mail stored on an Internet server--where most of us keep e-mail these days. It's sufficient to give your Internet service provider notice, according to Judge Michael Mosman.
In his opinion and order, Mosman noted the Fourth Amendment's "strong privacy protection for homes and the items within them in the physical world." Still, he said, "When a person uses the Internet, however, the user's actions are no longer in his or her physical home; in fact he or she is not truly acting in private space at all."
The Cloud of Unknowing
This focus on the physical location of data ignores how people use the Internet. The Internet and cloud computing support a huge range of activities. And there's a big difference between data I post on Facebook and data I store in a Google Doc. Wherever it is, if it's personal data I don't explicitly share, it's private.
If we are to have a sound basis for trusting cloud computing, with its call to store and run everything on the Internet, both laws and attitudes need to catch up to 21st-century reality. Until then, don't expect real privacy online.


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Synopsis and plot recap summary for Korean drama Protect the Boss episode 3:
Ji Hun finally knows the identity of Eun Sul from the evident of the crime – high heel shoe of Eun Sul. He is furious, grabs collar of Eun Sul, asking if she has a purpose to close to him from the beginning. Then Myung Ran comes back, she picks up Ji Hun annd beat him. Ji Hun who hurts everywhere walks out of the Eun Sul's house door, but he cannot walks in the night, and finally has to spend a night at Eun Sul' house. Mu Won knows that Ji Hun stays overnight at Eun Sul's place, and ridicules him.
At the same time, the ex-lover of Ji Hun, Seo Na Yun, returns to Korea, and becomes a co-worker of Mu Won. She still keeps remembering the days she in love with Ji Hun in the past.
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Serving Students First
As you crest the top step in the Falcon Center and look into the third floor Dining Hall, the first person you are likely to see is 24-year Dining Services veteran Carolyn Straight. With her blond hair and bright smile, she serves students during breakfast, lunch, and dinner and knows most everyone by name.
"When I first came to Fairmont State in 1986, I worked in the Nickel (student union) which at that time was still located in the Turley Center," Straight explains. Since then, she has worked in several buildings across campus, but her mission has stayed the same--to treat students with respect and love.
"The students are great," Straight says. "From the first student at breakfast to the last student at dinner, they make my job so enjoyable."
John Kellar, resident district manager for Aladdin at Fairmont State, agrees that Straight has contributed greatly to the success and good reputation of Dining Services. "Carolyn is intelligent, accurate and thorough in the performance of her duties, but her role as cashier is much more than swiping cards and handling cash transactions. She is an ambassador of goodwill, interacting with the students meal by meal - not simply on occasion."
Straight's student-focused attitude doesn't stop at the Dining Hall register. "She becomes the 'Away-from-home Mom' for many students and has done so for many years. She listens, cares about and thoroughly enjoys being a part of the students' lives," Kellar says.
Straight develops a special bond with Fairmont's student-athletes, due to their unique schedules and additional time on campus. From their first day on campus, she works to learn their name, their sport and anything else about them that she can. She then attends as many athletic events as possible to cheer on the students she loves so much.
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Like every good mom, Straight has to sometimes be the Dining Hall enforcer. "It is Carolyn's job to make sure everyone follows the rules, and she does not hesitate to confront violations," Kellar says. The tough love earns respect from students who never stop saying "good morning," "how are you today" or "have a great weekend" when they pass Carolyn.
Aladdin Food Services prides itself on providing first-rate service to all customers.
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With more than 24 years of service to Fairmont State, Straight has seen the campus, students and traditions change, but her bright personality and welcoming spirit are unwavering. "I do it for the students, they are my first priority," Carolyn says.
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News & Features » May 2013 » "Ghost Town" by Lydia Lunch (from The Heroin Chronicles)
"Ghost Town" by Lydia Lunch (from The Heroin Chronicles)
Ghost Town
by Lydia Lunch
(from The Heroin Chronicles)
Never answer the door at five forty-five a.m. on a Sunday morning. Either somebody's too high, somebody has just died, or somebody has just arrived who wants to kill you.
I drove 2,777 miles just to get away from him. From the Hudson River to the Pacific Ocean and it still wasn't far enough away.
A low-brow dirt bike racer from Topanga Canyon who was hell bent on a cross-country creepy crawl had pulled up, swept me off my feet, threw me into the front seat of his dilapidated pickup truck, and headed west, gunning it at full speed until we hit the "Slum by the Sea": Venice, California. He said he was on a rescue mission to save me. That he had been sent east by a mutual friend who was concerned for my safety after hearing stories about hospital stays and late-night 911 calls. Great, the sociopath abducts the schizophrenic out from under the psychopath in a late-night snatch-and-grab.
Something had to give because I was at the breaking point. The burned-out buildings, uncollected garbage, broken streetlights, endless break-ins, chronic shake-downs, and general havoc wreaked on the streets of New York City's Lower East Side, circa 1979, were a cake walk next to the damage being done in my own apartment. The alcoholic pill-popping Irish construction worker who I'd been holed up with for the past few months was getting mean.
Jealous, cruel, and beautiful. An irresistible combination of mania and machismo. By day he'd play iron man. Up at the crack of six sporting boxers and a wife beater, Lucky Strike behind his left ear, throwing sandwiches in a bag, filling a thermos with black coffee and Irish whiskey, singing a silly rockabilly song, a sly smile dancing under sleepy green eyes, happy to just be alive as he kissed me goodbye and disappeared out the door. Everything hunky dory until the sun went down, the knives came out, and he stumbled back from the bar half plastered after banging steel girders together for another eight-hour stretch. The first thirty minutes were always filled with bliss. We'd kiss, fall back onto the bed, and batter our bodies into each other until one of us started bleeding. Then batter away a little more after swallowing a couple of Seconals with a back of Johnnie Walker Black.
And that, my friend, is where the trouble came in. Loverboy loved his booze more than he loved me, and in return the booze hated my fucking guts. Probably because I refused to play slave to it and only used it as a lubricant for pharmaceuticals. A treacherous combination which triggered the bitch that provoked the bastard and resulted in a fucking that felt more like fighting, and the fighting would flare up over some petty jealous bullshit usually concerning who I was or wasn't fucking while the dick was dry humping rebar over at the construction site breaking his goddamn ass, and on and on until the garbage trucks rumbled on their early-morning run and he'd pass out for two or three hours, waking up refreshed and ready to greet the day as if nothing had happened, with a "Good mornin', darlin', care for a cup of joe?" as he smiled whistling through his wolfen teeth.
If Brando did Badlands while stoned on barbiturates and booze . . . well . . . you get the picture. The one that played in rerun like a bad Turner Classic that our TV eyes got stuck on night after night for weeks on end.
Yeah . . . yeah, and so it went, so wrapped up in torturing the shit out of each other that the world outside our ghetto hidey-hole was a squirrel-gray cotton-candy haze that we were too fucked up to realize didn't muffle the screeching or screams forever leaching out the windows and reverberating into the street below, and if anyone was tuned in they probably could have heard us all the way to the West Coast. Our psychosis getting carried away like radio frequencies emitting toxic shock waves into the ionosphere. I needed to get the fuck out. And fast.
I spiked his drink, packed a bag, left a note, and climbed into the front seat of the grease monkey's pickup truck, which was parked on the corner of 12th Street and Avenue B where he had been waiting for me to show up for thirty-six hours so that he could "save me."
Four days later we landed in Ghost Town. A grungy biker and his nubile Las Vegas bride, a bitchy witch dressed in black casting voodoo glances at the neighboring hood rats. They probably feared the look on my face more than I feared what they hid in their waistbands. The gangbangers left me alone. But the ghosts wouldn't. They were everywhere.
Some people are afraid of ghosts and what lurks in the dark. Terrified of the possibility of the unseen violators sneaking around within its murky shadows. But true evil is arrogant by nature and doesn't always bother to hide its intentions under the cloak of night. It gathers even more power by flaunting its vigor in the unadulterated glare of a perpetual high noon.
Los Angeles. A beautifully hideous sprawl. Stretching like an ever-expanding virus of sick contagion under the relentless sun as hot Devil Winds blow down from the mountains scorching the landscape. The promise of an endless summer shattered by gunshots and sirens, helicopters and hospital beds.
In 1980, Los Angeles County reported 51,448 violent crimes, 27,987 cases of aggravated assault, and 1,011 murders. The Sunset Strip Slayers preyed on young women, ex-lovers, and each other's twisted fantasies as they played out depraved rituals with the decapitated head of one of their victims. Welcome to Hollywood, asshole, where anything is possible.
New York City may have been bankrupt, decrepit, and suffering from the final stages of rigor mortis, but the California Dream was a waking nightmare of dead-end streets ripe with bloated corpses where bad beat poets, dope-sick singers, cracked actors, and petty criminals were all praying to a burned-out star on the sidewalk. All betting on a chance encounter which would flip the script in the lousy late-night made-for-TV movie of their wasted lives. I guess I was no different.
Everything was fucking peaches and whipped cream for the first six months of matrimonial bliss, until the lunatic who rescued me from the maniac took a bad spill on the Pacific Coast Highway and ended up in a coma with two charges of vehicular manslaughter on his rap sheet and a letter at the side of his bed which threatened eviction from our Venice crash pad. I went home and started to pack my bags.
In the same way that a shark can smell blood, a junkie's sixth sense alerts him to any possible random opportunity that may arise in which he can hustle, steal, score, or move in on and take advantage of an unsuspecting mark's benevolent disposition, a friend's temporary weakness, or an ex-girlfriend's first night alone in a near-empty house. It was five forty-five a.m. on a Sunday morning when the doorbell blasted and shattered what was left of my nerves.
Impeccable timing. The bastard always had it. Even down to the way he smoked a cigarette as I opened the door. Holding it down between thumb and index, deep drag, a small puckering sound as he pulled it away from his lips, staring straight into my eyes before he flung the butt into the wet grass. A sadistic smirk creeping in and cracking up the left side of his face. His husky whisper, hypnotic and irresistible . . . "Good mornin', darlin', spare a cup of joe for the road warrior?"
The Irish construction worker. One hundred and ninety-three days later and a distance of almost three thousand miles meant nothing to the madman convinced he could walk right in whistling Dixie and simply steal me back. Don't laugh. I let him in.
With the cunning of a snake that can sense whether or not you're about to attack it first, a schizophrenic can detect the atmospheric flux in a psychopath's gravitational force field. Something inside him had shifted slightly since I last saw him. His magnetism seemed less manic. More mesmerizing. Fucking hypnotic.
"I'm off the sauce." He grinned, head cocked, a quick wink, and one hand pulling out a small white packet of what I assumed to be coke from the inside pocket of his leather jacket.
"And on the skids," I quipped, turning toward the bedroom door, which he quickly pinned me against.
"Don't walk away from me. Not again. I'll leave. I will. Let's just smoke a cigarette, do a little line, and if you want me to leave, I'll go. Promise. I just want to look at you for another five minutes."
He slowly backed away, pulling me with him, easing me onto the couch as he got down on one knee, like a love-struck delinquent, sucking air between his teeth and whispering, "Damn . . . You are a luscious little bitch . . ." He opened the packet, spilled out some powder, rolled a note, and handed it to me with a sweet smile that concealed his deceit and treachery. I had to get the hell away from him or I'd be suckered right back in.
"I need coffee . . ." I lied. I needed to split. "I'll put some on."
I slithered off the couch, fake smile planted on my lips, and suggested he chop out a few fatties. I'd be right back. I planned on spiking him again. I still had half a dozen Seconals left over from our binge in New York. I quit that shit when I quit him. Make it strong enough and black enough and he'll never know what hit him. I'd grab a bag, write a note, and leave both the psychopath and the sociopath where they belonged. In fucking comas.
I could hear the methodical rhythm of razor on glass. A deep snotty inhalation as he cleared his throat. A quick snort followed by a soft chuckle. Why the hell was that motherfucker chuckling? It prickled the hair on the back of my neck.
I poured the coffee, emptied the red devils into the muddy brew, and prayed for deliverance while slinking over to the couch. He handed me the note, I gave him the cup. I just wanted to get this over with.
He swigged the coffee like he was chugging beer. Old habits and all that shit. I snorted a fat blast of what I thought was coke and immediately fell ass backward, landing on the bag I had been packing earlier that night and hitting my head on the edge of the table. It knocked me out.
I woke up bloody and puking. Projectile vomiting. All over the table. All over his dope. All over his boots. Down the front of my slip. Great heaving waves of gelatinous funk shooting out of my mouth and nose. Thick rich fists of sour phlegm cascading in golden arcs all over the room. I pissed myself and started to laugh. The bastard had almost killed me. I had never done heroin. He knew that. It just wasn't my trip. I wasn't looking for nirvana, a velvet womb, or a soft euphoric haze of interstellar space to melt into. I dug the shit that jacked up the irritation level. Barbs and booze. Coke or speed. LSD. Something that accelerated my already jacked-up metabolism. I wasn't interested in slowing shit down. Smoothing it out. Softening the edges. I wanted to keep the edges rough, like the one I had just hit my head against. The one that had finally banged a bit of sense into my thick nugget. Never, under any circumstances, will I ever again answer the door at five forty-five a.m. on a Sunday morning.
LYDIA LUNCH is always rebelling against the hypocrisy of America's picture-perfect Hollywood image, which it exports through television, films, and commercial music. Her art has always revealed the down-and-dirty side of the all-too-real American underbelly. She is the author of Paradoxia and Will Work for Drugs, both published by Akashic Books.
Posted: May 3, 2013
Category: Short Story Month | Tags: Drug Chronicles, Ghost Town, Lydia Lunch, Paradoxia, Short Story Month, The Heroin Chronicles, Will Work for Drugs


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Aldo Capitini
Aldo Capitini (1895-1968) was probably the most important advocate of nonviolence in 20th century Italy. He was born in modest circumstances in Perugia and went to a technical school although his passion was literature. His health was poor but he drove himself to study and won a scholarship to study philosophy and literature in Pisa.
Capitini took up active politics when he observed the Concordat between the Roman Catholic Church and the state in 1929. He believed that the Church could have brought down the fascist regime by noncooperation but disgracefully compromised. From then on he made a sharp distinction between religious institutions and a free religious faith exemplified by Jesus, St Francis and the Buddha.
He was dismissed from his teaching post in Pisa because he would not join the Fascist Party and returned to Perugia where he began writing and got his first book published in 1937. In it he wrote: "Pain, remorse, the thought of death are always real; and it is here that religion springs up".
Gandhi's autobiography had been published in Italy in 1929 and he had visited Europe including Italy in 1931 and this had an impact. Altieri writes:
"Nonviolence seems the highest spiritual teaching, a religious idea of absolute purity, to love for its own sake, the only power able to defeat fascism. If Mussolini in order to assert himself resorted to sinister means – deceit, lies, murder – Capitini counterposes the highest values of truth, non-mendacity, nonkilling".
Capitini believed that nonviolence should embrace all creation and he consequently became a vegetarian.
Capitini developed a political ideology called liberal-socialism which did not develop into a political party but was a very decentralised movement which attracted many young people. He was imprisoned three times in 1943-4 as were other activists. A Party of Action now developed in the movement but Capitini kept apart from it as he saw the movement as an 'orientation of conscience' not a political party. In danger of arrest and deportation by the Germans when they occupied northern Italy he hid in the countryside.
In the post-war period Capitini refused to support any party, declaring himself a free religious and left-wing independent. He started to set up Social Orientation Centres around the country to counterbalance central power and encourage democracy. He also turned his attention to education for a renewal of culture and he taught in universities. The recent tragic history of Italy, he believed, was due to cultural and religious backwardness and the absence of collective moral conscience. He was nominated Rector in Perugia but was moved due to pressure from the Catholic Church.
In 1952 he set up a Centre for Nonviolence in Perugia and also promoted conscientious objection to conscription. He regarded Gandhi's approach as a third way between communism and capitalism. Crucial is the primacy of means in social change. Gandhi's way was revolutionary but it did not just change the structures as Marxism intended, but also a person's being.
Capitini became aware of Danilo Dolci, who settled in Sicily to help the poor in their struggle against the Mafia, and gave him his full support. Dolci's outlook and actions were essentially Gandhian.
Capitini held up Gandhi and Jesus as examples of those who detach themselves from the world, though remaining in the midst of humanity in order to transform society. Conflict cannot be avoided but responding with nonviolent action can create new positive relationships.
A march for Peace and the Brotherhood of People was organised by Capitini in 1961; walking from Perugia to Assisi it attracted large numbers. Capitini's programme is a radical one indeed: abolition of armies, of borders, of property. A few days before his death in 1968 he wrote: "… Today's utopia can be tomorrow's reality". He recommended a green and nonviolent society with a rejection of consumerism and admired the Community of the Ark which was set up by Lanza del Vasto in France after he met Gandhi in India.
Altieri's study is called "An Intellectual Biography" and there is much more philosophy here than this review might indicate. Capitini was a deeply religious or mystical person although he rejected religious institutions. We should be grateful to the International Gandhian Institute for Nonviolence and Peace (IGINP) which has published this English version and brought to non-Italian readers the life and thought of a person who ought to be much better known than he is.
Source: The Gandhi Foundation: George Paxton, Editor of The Gandhi Way
The story of Aldo Capitini was suggested by Voices Italian member, Isabella Bresci


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In 1955, Pius XII reformed the liturgy to make foot washing part of the Holy Thursday Mass. Since the 14th century, it had been practiced in a separate liturgy. Then last year, the newly elected Pope Francis decided to celebrate Holy Thursday by washing the feet of inmates—including women, Muslims, and Orthodox Christians—at a Roman juvenile detention center, causing some to fret that the pope set a questionable example. According to Vatican spokesman Father Federico Lombardi, Francis took into account "the real situation, the community where one celebrates."
In the 1980s, the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops' Committee on the Liturgy stated it is customary for women to participate in the washing of feet. The committee was writing in response to questions about the language in the Sacramentary's rubric for Holy Thursday that only refers to "selected men" (viri selecti).
Confusion surrounding the washing of feet is understandable given that our contemporary rite has its roots in one of the most enigmatic scenes of the New Testament. Only the Gospel of John describes Jesus washing the disciples' feet. Many biblical scholars think the scene was written later than the rest of the gospel by an unknown author. Some believe it was added to teach John's audience, a group facing violent opposition both from other followers of Jesus as well as the Roman government, to prepare for martyrdom. Just as Jesus washed his followers' feet, a prerequisite for entering the Temple, his followers must cleanse themselves spiritually to stand before God.
The early Christian authors Tertullian and Augustine both mention foot washing, and it likely became a liturgical rite between the fifth and seventh centuries. Documents from the Council of Toledo in 694 stated the practice had fallen into disuse in some areas and that it needed to be restored as part of the Holy Thursday celebration.
During the Middle Ages, understanding of the gospel's foot washing episode changed; the emphasis on ritual cleansing and martyrdom faded, and an emphasis on humility and service emerged. The image of someone powerful doing the work of a slave, stooping to wash the lowest part of the body, resonated in the medieval world where most people spent all day on their feet engaging in hard labor. Foot washing rites spread outside the church, as European monarchs also began washing the feet of their poorest subjects and giving gifts of money, food, and clothing on Holy Thursday. Both the Catholic Mary I and her Protestant sister Elizabeth I washed the feet of poor laywomen during elaborate ceremonies in 16th-century England.
Pope Francis' actions may have set a new example, but they are following an even older one. Holy Thursday foot washing—of men and women—has been shaped by the needs and beliefs of the Christian community dating back to John's gospel.
This article appeared in the April 2014 issue of U.S. Catholic (Vol. 79, No. 4, page 46).
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